Steven Pinker’s new book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Viking)), consists of 509 pages explaining why we must be serious about human nature and extolling the virtues of the kind ...
Sociobiology is the study of the sociality of social animals. It began in 1976 with a book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, by the famous myrmecologist E.O. Wilson. He devoted the last chapter of his ...
If Steven Pinker’s latest 500-page treatise on the brain, The Blank Slate, serves any wider purpose in the popular discussion of science issues, it will, one hopes, be the final demoliti By signing up ...
A survey of advanced social organization in insects calls into question the standard explanation for eusociality Biologist Edward O. Wilson argues that natural selection acting on emergent traits of ...
R.M. PITCHAPPAN, K. BALAKRISHNAN, V. SUDARSEN, V. BRAHMAJOTHI, V. MAHENDRAN, S. AMALRAJ, R. SANTHAKUMARI, K. VIJAYAKUMAR, P. SIVALINGAM and S. RAMASAMY Two endogamous ...
I have just returned from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. I was there to participate in a small conference honoring Edward O. Wilson, the well-known evolutionist. Although he spent his ...
This critical review of a recent sociobiological paper by Lee Ellis finds the paper deficient on a number of counts. Ellis is shown to be guilty of a naive scientism, of introducing pseudo issues of ...
For many aspects of group or individual behavior, a biological analysis might not prove to be the optimal level or even an informative level of analysis... Nevertheless, it is important to appreciate ...
. J. Alcock. Oxford University Press, New York. 2001. Pp. 257. Price £16.95, hardback. ISBN 0-19-514383-3. ‘No triumph of sociobiology without evolutionary psychology’ Although you cannot tell by ...
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